Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
Property from a Private European Collection
Family Group
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Henry Moore
1898 - 1986
Family Group
bronze
height (including integral bronze base): 14.5cm.; 5in.
Conceived in 1945 and cast circa 1945 at Fiorini Ltd, the present work is from the edition of 6.
Waddington Galleries, London
Kasahara Gallery, Osaka
Private Collection
Landau Fine Art, Montreal, where acquired by the present owner, March 2017
David Sylvester, (ed.), Henry Moore. Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, vol. 1, London, 1957, no. 235, pp. 14, 278, illustrated p. 150 (terracotta cast)
Will Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, no. 121, illustrated p.8 (terracotta cast)
Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, no. 222, illustrated p. 75 (terracotta cast, as Groupe de Famille)
John Hedgecoe (ed.), Henry Moore, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1968, illustrated p. 162 (terracotta cast)
Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, Thames and Hudson, London, 1970, no. 343, illustrated (another cast)
Josep Iglesias del Marguet, Henry Moore: Y El Inquietante Infinito, Ediciones Poligrafa Barcelona, 1979, illustrated p. 133 (another cast)
David Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture, Macmillan, London, 1981, no. 178, illustrated p. 95 (another cast)
David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, Vol. 1, 1921-1948, Lund Humphries, London, 1988, no. 265, illustrated p. 150 (another cast)
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore at the National Museum of Modern Art, 1969, no. 28 (another cast)
Florence, Forte Belvedere, British Council, Henry Moore Exhibition, 20 May - 30 September 1972, no. 62 (terracotta cast)
London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Small Bronzes and Drawings by Henry Moore, 30 November - 23 December 1972, no. 11, illustrated p. 29 (another cast, later edition)
London, Thomas Gibson, Twenty Sculptures from the collection of Thomas Gibson Fine Art, 1974, illustrated (another cast)
London, Thomas Gibson, 80/80, 30 July 1978, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 17 (another cast)